Channel: MinuteVideos

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Description: [User Submitted Story] I walked into my parents room to find my mom shaking with rage in her eyes. I had never seen her so angry when she turned to me and said: "Your Dad got married to another woman on his business trip." I've always been a happy little kid with had a loving family and the best father, he was forgiving, optimistic, always helped others, had an awesome sense of humor and even his looks were great. He was pretty handsome and young-looking for his age. Dad's a businessman, and his job requires a lot of traveling. Since we're a family, we move with him everywhere, but there was one time where he had to go on a business trip for 15 days alone since the tickets were costly during that time and I had important exams to do at school. It was Mum's birthday when Dad finally called to tell us that he was coming back home. When he finally arrived we all gave him a bone-crushing hug. Also, he had brought a cake with him. Mum even said, "oh, Dear. You remembered me!" She was so happy. Dad seemed to look even better than when he had left too: his frizzy beard was neatly shaved, he lost some weight and seemed to be in a good shape, he cut his hair and dyed his grey strands black. I never thought about it, but the change was noticeable, especially when it has been a long time since we saw him. Five days later, I was sleeping in my room one night when I suddenly woke up to hear my Mum's wailing. She was crying HYSTERICALLY as if someone had died. She was saying, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?! WHO IS SHE? WHO IS SHE? TELL ME!" I did guess what was happening already, but I tried convincing myself that it was a dream and I went back to sleep. The next morning, Dad was nowhere to be found, and Mum was wide awake. Her eyes were so puffy I could barely recognize her. It looked like she had been crying all night and hadn't slept a wink. When I asked her where Dad was, she just looked at me, gulped and then walked away...was it true after all? It had been three days and Dad didn't come back home. Mum just seemed to look sicker and sicker. Later that night, Dad came back home. I was awake, but I was so scared to see him, so I pretended to be asleep. I closed the door, switched off the lights and wrapped myself in my blanket, but then Dad came to my room and switched the lights back on. "Hey. You're awake, aren't you?" "did Mama tell you anything?" Then, Mum came and said, "she heard us when we were talking." Then Dad said, "come here." I followed my parents to their room and we all sat together, Mum looking like a zombie, with rage in her eyes. I asked what happened, then that was when Mum finally spoke. "Your Dad got married to another woman on his business trip. He didn't delay his arrival because of any problem at work, but he was preparing for the wedding. He fell for another woman and she's pregnant too. Your Dad has made a new family." Mum said she was going to file for a divorce since she couldn't live like that anymore. She said she couldn't bear sharing her husband with some other woman, and she begged us not to feel sad when that happens. We had to call a family meeting not long after, since I was the only one who knew about it and my siblings didn't it put a lot of pressure on me and my sanity started to crumble even more. They had to know at some point though, right? So during the meeting, it was all confessed and we were allowed to ask Dad whatever questions we wanted. I asked him why he did such a thing. All he said was, "sometimes a man needs more than one woman in his life." Dad would stay over at our house every other day while he stays with his other wife too. My grades dropped and I would get scolded by my teachers. I would cry myself to sleep every night, hearing Mum and Dad's arguments over and over and I never succeeded in making Mum feel any better. Throughout all of this I felt like I wasn't able to do anything to help those who were around me. Right now, I'm depressed about what happened and I'm still hoping all of this is a bad dream. All I'm ever asking is to go back in time to when we were a happy family, but really I know this can never happen. Because of this experience, I now have lots of insecurities, I feel like I'm worthless. I can't help it but think of what I could have done better as a daughter to prevent this from happening. I feel like this is all my fault. I had a great life and never imagined it would end up like this, sometimes you just don't know the value of something in your life until you lose it.